Michael Shepherd

! 0253 To Li Po on Saint Patrick's Day Poem by Michael Shepherd

Dear Li Po

you wrote your Po-em of The Dayfor Poemhunter about drinking - and alone at that - without mentioningthat it's Saint Patrick's Daywhen drinkers seldom drink alonefor the craic's the thing

so next time you have to drink aloneexcept for your shadow, notice that your shadowunder the light of the Moon, dances more drunkenly, and sooner - happy shadow -than you. You haven't noticed? Then perhaps you're thinkerthan you drunk you are